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...Great Books" cores promote "a false feeling ofWestern supremacy" when "the issue is of world,not Western, civilization," says Zaheer R. Ali,president of the Black Students Association...
...some panelists questioned the motives ofWestern Europeans who criticize reunification...
...West has never been a hermetically sealed,narrow culture," Ozment said, adding that chargesof ethnocentricity are often based "on lack of afull understanding of the nature and culture ofWestern civilization...
...Americans at home in theworld of canvas and pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture came into itsown, breaking free of the slavish imitation ofwestern norms that had plagued it since Peter theGreat first journeyed across the steppes in the1700s. The efforts of painters to forge a uniqueRussian artistic identity rivaled their literaryand musical counterparts in complexity, sincerityand originality...
Among the institutions Steiner said firmlyasked for interns were two predominately whiteuniversities, the University of Cape Town and theUniversity of Witswatersrand, as well as apredominately non-white school, the University ofWestern Cape. He also said several private schoolswant interns, including the St. Barnabas College,the Woodmede School, St. Joseph's, and St.Alban's, which have substantial Black enrollments...
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